STANFORD TENNIS -  Season Re-Cap

The 2012 season for our men and women featured some outstanding results, which our great coaches will describe in more detail on their respective pages. Although we will be losing some key seniors to graduation, both teams have some fantastic recruits enrolling in the Fall. 2013 promises to be a banner year for Stanford tennis!

COURT AND ARCHIVE VIEWING - Click Here
Under “Stanford,” you can also scroll from Stanford Live to Video Archives of historical Stanford player/team performances. (This is an on-line replica of our all-weather touch screen Kiosk at the entrance to the Taube Family Tennis Stadium).

I-PHONE/ANDROID COURT VIEWING: Click Here As an added feature, you can call up  to access the scoreboard AND to select which of 6 match courts you wish to watch. Just save this address on your phone screen.

YOUNG CARDINAL CHALLENGE: For the 50-60 men’s and women’s players who graduated in the last 10 years, we remind you that our Buck-Cardinal Club is once again sponsoring competition amongst our 34 sports to see if any sport can solicit donations from 100% of its athletes. We are very proud that BOTH Stanford tennis teams achieved this goal last year, and we are hopeful you all will see fit to participate once again.  Click Here

REUNION TENNIS: As usual, those classes having a reunion this year (classes whose year ends in 2 or 7) have received an email invitation to join other former men’s and women’s tennis players of all ages who are celebrating their Reunion at Taube Tennis Center, Sat., Oct 6 from 9-11 for some tennis or just good conversation.

BANK OF THE WEST CLASSIC – July 9-15
Featuring # 5 Serena Williams, # 8 Marion Bartoli,# 10 Angelique Kerber, # 13 Sabine Lisicki, # 16 Dominika Cibulkova, former # 1 Jelena Jankovic, two-time Grand Slam champ – Svetlana Kuznetsova and others. Ticket Information: Click Here    Phone (866) 982-8497

Of special interest will be Wednesday, Thursday and Friday night matches with tennis Legends Pete Sampras, Jim Courier and Michael Chang. For Private “Meet and Greet” sessions, contact Emily.Kakayama@imgworld.com (415) 227-8027

ROWS OF CHAMPIONS
Former male and female team members are reminded that Commemorative Chairs recognizing team participation can be purchased with a $5,000 gift to “Stanford University.” Over 165 former players are so recognized in this special section behind the Center Court with personalized 3-4 word, 4-5 line inscriptions. Latest additions – Greg Hirshman, Ryan Thacher and Bradley Klahn. For more information, contact the Director of Tennis.

WOMEN’S TEAM PAGE

It was an interesting and bittersweet year for our team. We finished on a huge historic high note with sophomore Nicole Gibbs and junior Mallory Burdette contesting the NCAA singles championship and then teaming to win the doubles title - the first time the same players from the same team both reached the singles final and then teamed to win the doubles Championship !  Congrats to Nicole and Mallory for their outstanding play in the NCAA tournament and throughout the year!

Our team had a remarkable one-loss season, which included being the co-conference champs in the inaugural Pac-12.  Our quarterfinal finish and close loss showed just how tough our conference was with 4 teams finishing in the top 8 in the final rankings. Great effort by Nicole, Vee, Mal, Stacey, Ellen, Kristie, Amelia and Natalie!!!

We will miss our lone senior Veronica Li next year as she graduates with a degree in Political Science and returns in the Fall to complete a master’s in Sociology. Our incoming freshmen are:

Krista Hardebeck of Orange CA - currently competing in Europe at the Junior Championships at the French Open and Wimbledon.
Lindsay Kostas of San Diego, a top southern Cal junior player.

Awards won this season:

Nicole Gibbs: NCAA Singles and Doubles Champion, Pac 12 Player of Year, ITA Singles Player of Year, Stanford “Conference Player of the Year”, Honda Award winner for tennis

Mallory Burdette:  2 time NCAA Doubles Champion, Pac 12 First Team Selection singles, Stanford Outstanding Junior Female Athlete

Stacey Tan: Pac 12 Second Team selection

Please watch our players compete at the Bank of the West WTA event at Stanford July 7-15, 2012.

Thanks for all of the support that we received this year, and we look forward to an outstanding campaign next season. See you next fall.

     Nicole Gibbs             NCAA Singles Champ 

Mallory Burdette & Nicole Gibbs

NCAA Doubles Champions